May 24, 2008
University College Dublin’s School of Art History and Cultural Policy is holding a conference on Ireland’s arts and cultural management sector which will take place on UCD’s campus on 11-12 July 2008 (Friday & Saturday). The conference is entitled ‘How are we doing? Managing culture and the arts in Ireland’.…
November 20, 2007
I eventually got around to reading the Art of Possibility on my recent trip to the US. Here’s an extract from the Amazon blurb. Ben Zander, conductor for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, was faced with the same problem every year for…
August 10, 2007
Every problem is a solution to a set of circumstances – so you could say that the problem is both the problem and the solution. One of the things I try to do with clients is help them “appreciate” the problem they are having. No, that’s not some new age…
May 1, 2007
Taken in a pizza store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
April 17, 2006
What happens when you have 80 people in a confined space over 8 days? Emotions start running high, that’s what. And in some cases – very high and I include myself in that description. It’s interesting to find myself in an institutional setting experiencing much of what my clients experience…
April 17, 2006
If I’ve been asked that question once, I’ve been asked it a hundred times in the last few years. In an age of the “sound bite” trying to talk about the complexity of human relationships that make up business life doesn’t quite lend itself to co-operation. All of my work…
